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"Ensemble dit "" château des Gaucelm """

Lunel, Hérault, France

The record

Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
Protection
inscrit MH partiellement
Extent of protection
Ensemble formé par la tour des prisons, le porche Notre-Dame, l'ancienne viguerie, en totalité, et les façades et les toitures de l'ancienne halle aux poissons (cad. AY 86, 240, 241) : inscription par arrêté du 17 août 1998
Protection dates
1998/08/17 : inscrit MH
Type
château
Main period of construction
13e siècle, 15e siècle, 1er quart 19e siècle
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Address
2, 4, 16 cours Gabriel-Péri ; 17 rue Alphonse-Ménard
Commune
Lunel
Département
Hérault
Region
Occitanie
Country
France
Coordinates
43.67460, 4.13418
Mérimée reference
PA34000017

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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1603 map "Languedock." (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Témoignage dans l'histoire des institutions de la ville ; qualités architecturales, tant pour les parties médiévales de l'enceinte castrale avec le porche et la tour, de la Renaissance pour le décor de façade et de l'escalier en vis du logis, que du premier quart du 19e siècle pour la façade néoclassique de l'ancienne halle aux poissons. Indéniable intérêt historique et archéologique de cet ensemble.

English translation

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Testimony in the history of the city's institutions; architectural qualities, both for the medieval parts of the castle enclosure with the porch and the tower, for the Renaissance decoration of the façade and the spiral staircase of the main dwelling, and for the first quarter of the 19th century for the neo-classical façade of the former fish market. Undeniable historical and archaeological interest of this ensemble.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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